 | José López Baralt - Law - 1999 - 400 pages
...Rhodes, 1 vol. 122; 180 et seq. mise Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, not to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...States and Territories, as recognized by the legislation of eighteen hundred and fifty ... it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 pages
...argument was incorporated into the Nebraska Bill itself, in the language which follows: "It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their... | |
 | United States. National Archives and Records Administration - History - 2006 - 257 pages
...fifty, commonly called the Compromise Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their... | |
 | Josh Gottheimer - History - 2003 - 576 pages
...argument was incorporated into the Nebraska Bill itself, in the language which follows: "It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - History - 2004 - 372 pages
...thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States." Then opened...favor of "squatter sovereignty," and "sacred right of selfgovernment." "But," said opposition members, "let us amend the bill so as to expressly declare... | |
 | C. Bradley Thompson - Abolitionists - 324 pages
...argument was incorporated into the Nebraska bill itself, in the language which follows: "It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom; but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their... | |
 | Michael G. Chiorazzi, Marguerite Most - History - 2005 - 706 pages
...sovereignty, the act notes that the Compromise Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...argument was incorporated into the Nebraska bill itself, in the language which follows : " It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate...the Constitution of the United States." Then opened tl;e roar of loose declamation in favor of " squatter sovereignty," and " sacred right of self-government.''... | |
 | David P. Currie - Law - 2007 - 341 pages
...1850, commonly called the Compromise Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their... | |
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Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate... 
